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The basic answer is to use one of the two String constructors that use an encoding argument: String(byte[] bytes, int offset, int length, String enc) or String(byte[] bytes, String enc). Because ...more

You can find at least one class that does this at IBM's Alphaworks. See NumberFormat. Unfortunately, as with most items on the site, the license is only for developer experimentation and expires...more

UTF-16 represents every character using two bytes. UTF-8 uses the one byte ASCII character encodings for ASCII characters and represents non-ASCII characters using variable-length encodings. Keep...more

The JIL Toolkit was developed by Sun's Technical Development Center. It basically contains four tools with a Swing interface that allow ( quote ):
Checking Java files for methods, classes, class...more

From the sample given at Using Predefined Formats in The Java Tutorial, one might think that getting a TimeInstance with a locale for Germany would do the trick. Unfortunately, this is not the ca...more

No...you can't. That is because the methods are static and therefore you cannot override them. Secondly the class used for JOptionPane is not parametrized. It is hardcoded as JOptionPane. May be, ...more

Most database engines support double byte character sets ( DBCS ) and this was the primary method of supporting these languages in the past. While this is generally still available, Unicode is pr...more

Locales, as country, regional or area identifiers.
Localized Resources, via the ResourceBundle series of classes.
Calendars and Time Zones.
Formatting, for dates, numbers and decimals, and message...more

The general answer in 1.2 or later is to use ResourceBundles and then call Window.applyResourceBundle(). This will do all the grunt work for you so FlowLayout and BorderLayout can take accout of ...more

During my research on i18n, I came across International Text in JDK 1.2 which may provide you some better insight. They get into detail of using bidirectional capabilities in Java. Their example ...more